The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-02-24
The Woman's Column.

Senator FarWcll. Lo"an'S successor, cast his
first vote in the l.. s. Senate for woman Suf
tra=c. 4 GOOD beginning.
Mrs. Frances IIodgson Burnett gives the fol-
lowing directions for writing novel: ~ on
must have Il pen. ink and paper. Sc the first
with brains. the second with imagination. and
the third with generosity.
We believe in clectng women to public Of
fee, and are clad to see that voters generally
willing 10 accord l!,t privilege to the weak
er sex. Bat we notice that they generally get
the office that has no salary attached. Boston
Post.
RiciIland Centre. Wis, is about to have Il
new municipal charter. and nearly two-thirl>
of the inhabitants Of the town have signed Il
petition to the Legislature, asking that the new
charter shall give the women of Rirh!and Cen
tire the right to Vote at municipal elections.
Mrs. Carrie b. kgore. of Philadelphia. hav-
lnw been appointed Master in case bN Judge
Fell. last week. administered an oath and took
testimony. This is said 10 be tho first time Il
woman ever administered an oath or exercised
the power Of the Court of Penn>y yvana
Rev. Mrs. Danforth, of Ohio. who has been
spending Il few weeks in Boston, is pastor of
two UnNcr>al>t churches in her own state.
one at Huntington and one at Flint They are
IA hundred miles apart. hut Mrs. panforth has
cared for them both very acccptably for the
past six years.
The municipal suffrage bill in the New York
Legislature is To be pushed in the Senate at
once. Gen. Coggc>hall, the leading kelltbl-
can. and Gen. Murphy the leading Democrat
in that body. are both ready to aid it. while
Lieut.. toy. Jones. the presiding officer, who
has long been committed to suffrage, prom >c>
his hearty support.
Miss Farwcather. NJ. H.. of Chicago. has
been offered the post of lady doctor at the Med
it'a school for women at Agra. and the num-
Der of pupils has increased from six to sixty
The Female Hospital at Allalaha'! has made an
excellent start. and Lucknow is doing its best
to rival the nei@hborin" capital. Women phy>-
clans are appreciated in India.
Miss Mary Mccormick. who has Just started,
in Chicago. the "Grl>' Cooperative Clothing"
Company" the first institution of its kind in
the country, is described as Il short, sturdy
young woman, with ru,lly. healthy color, and
rc>olUte gray eyes. She SAYS she has been call-
in. i've dollars "A week running 'tackcr" to
fa>trn the pockets of rantaloonS, as long a>
she can live on that amount of wages. and if
there is any virtue at all in cooperation. She
proposes to whether women cannot reap
the benefit OF it.
The workin-women of Copenhagen have
founded a benefit union for mutual help. which
| already counts l.439 members. Many other
women'> unions have been lately founded in
Denmark, both in the country and the capital.
Among the chief of these is the Womcn'>
| mon for Progress, which was established last
November, and works in democratic drcc-
ton. Its object is to awake public opinion on
the subject of ''Women'> rights and to excite
attc:tion TO all questions of social OF political
interest. Lectures and discussions are held
twice Il month.
Mrs. l.. p. Lowe has been elected State
Librarian by the Tennessee Legislature. There
was an exciting contest between the five cam
di'laie>. all e>timable ladies. and Mrs. Lowe
did not win until the twenty-fiflh ballot was
taken. She is the widow of Il Methodist minis
ter. who left her pennile>S. Mrs. Lowe took
| the money she received from the insurance ON
his life and paid it to settle his debts, Sayin"
that not one blot should be left OH her dead
husbands name. "cven for the sake of living
wife and eight living childrcn.' Since then.
Mrs. Lowe has earned Il support for herself
and family with her own hands.
The political significance of the recent vote
on the Woman Suffrage Amendment in the L.
s. Senate is beginning to be recognized and ap-
preriated. Suffrage received ~ votes and pairs,
including that of Senator Plumb, who came in
too late, but requested TO be recorded in the at-
| lrmatve. The adverse votes and pairs We're 4
| All the n Senators recorded in favor of woman
| suffrage We're Republicans. OF the opponents,
| II We're Republicans and ,. Democrats. Look
| ing at the vote geographically, by sections it
| stnoJ ,s follows